Pawprint Publishing: 12 books

Sam Pendlebury’s father is always angry. Why? Sam discovers that his paternal grandfather was a convicted murderer who escaped custody and disappeared. In his aunt’s attic, Sam finds a diary in which his grandfather professes his innocence. There’s also a watch with a weird inscription suggesting...

Zach Brinkley is in hospital where he’s visited by an annoying “winged thing” and a set of ghostly twins. The twins believe someone is trying to kill him! Can Zach thwart this would-be killer?

Billy O'Connor, tall, skinny and unpopular, desperately wants to be good at something.  Then something weird happens.  Almost overnight, Bumbling Billy acquires talents that make him the coolest boy in school.  He can play the piano, paint like Charles Conder (a famous Australian artist) and dance...

Zach visits Shady Glades Rest Home and meets the mysterious Mr Cathcart, who’s suffering from amnesia. Who is he? Can Zach and his friends unlock the secrets of this old man’s past? What dangers may lurk there?

Rodney Rowbottom lives in Frogmore, a country town.  He attends Frogmore Primary where his fading prompts the headmaster to write to his parents that his "low visibility is proving disruptive”.  Rodney overhears his parents arguing because of the headmaster’s letter and learns that there’s...

Tim Barnett is plagued by a nightmare involving an old man, a dog and a golden urn. He discovers that the urn is both enchanted and cursed, and that until it is recovered, his great, great grandfather will be trapped in “a cycle of rebirth”. Can Tim recover the urn, and release his great, great grandfather?

On a school excursion to abandoned railway tunnels beneath Bottleneck Bay, Sophie Ferguson sees a ghost of a young man from her past - her past in a previous life, that is.  In trying to help him, she places herself in terrible danger.  Will Zach and his friends be able to save her?

The two detectives who investigated Rodney’s disappearance return to Frogmore to investigate a spate of supermarket robberies. Then they, too, disappear, and Rodney must go back to Llandringodd to try to rescue them.

There’s a new boy at Josiah Batty Grammar who, at first, Zach Brinkley and his friends can’t stand. Although Raoul improves on acquaintance, it isn’t long before Zach discovers that befriending him is dangerous. In trying to help Raoul, Zach risks his own life.

When the body of Horace Radcliffe, headmaster of Eldersley College, is discovered on the morning of 23rd May, 1975, police are puzzled by the corpse's appearance. Clearly the headmaster has been murdered, but why did the murderer put a flower behind his ear and decorate his face with lipstick?

Zach Brinkley enrols at Josiah Batty Grammar, only to discover that something at his new school isn’t quite right. What’s worse, the vengeful spirit of the school’s founder expects him to make it right! Will seeking justice lead to Zach’s expulsion?

The body of Ben Haversham’s Uncle Izzy vanishes, and Ben, although he attended the funeral, suspects his uncle is still alive. Ben’s suspicion is confirmed when he’s told that his uncle was working undercover to bring to justice a group of iconoclasts who destroyed the town’s monument, the Big Prawn.